Theology Of The Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy

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This paperback edition of Walter Brueggemann's classic work makes this important volume available at a lower price and accompanied by a CD-ROM that enhances its usefulness in numerous ways. Using the Libronix software, with helpful features for the user (searching, bookmarking, highlighting, auto-footnoting, note taking), the CD-ROM also includes chapter summaries, discussion questions, and web links to Brueggemann resources (articles, interviews, reviews). Theology of the Old Testament Contents Preface to the CD-ROM Edition Preface Abbreviations Retrospect 1: From the Beginning to the End of a Generative Period Beginnings in the Reformation The Critical Enterprise The Recovery of Theological Interpretation An Ending to a Generative Period Retrospect 2: The Contemporary Situation The Postmodern Interpretive Situation Centrist Enterprises Efforts at the Margin Four Insistent Questions Part I ISRAEL'S CORE TESTIMONY 3. Israel's Practice of Testimony Testimony and Trial Metaphor Normative Shape of Israel's Utterance Normative Substance of Israel's Utterance Summary 4. Testimony in Verbal Sentences Yahweh, the God Who Creates Yahweh, the God Who Makes Promises Yahweh, the God Who Delivers Yahweh, the God Who Commands Yahweh, the God Who Leads An Overview of Verbal Testimony 5. Adjectives: Yahweh with Characteristic Markings Generalizing Adjectives from Specific Verbal Sentences Exodus 34:6-7: A Credo of Adjectives Representative Uses of the Adjectival Formula Four Provisional Conclusions 6. Nouns: Yahweh as Constant The Testimony of Metaphors Metaphors of Governance Metaphors of Sustenance Overview of Noun Testimony 7. Yahweh Fully Uttered The Disjunctive Rendering of Yahweh Responses to the Disjunctive Rendering of Yahweh The Density of Nouns of Sustenance A Proximate Resolution in Righteousness Summary Observations Part II ISRAEL'S COUNTERTESTIMONY 8. Cross-Examining Israel's Core Testimony Hiddenness, Ambiguity, Negativity Israel's Questions to Yahweh The Context of Cross-Examination 9. The Hiddenness of Yahweh The Hidden Rule of Yahweh Yahweh's Governance: Personification and Providence Summary 10. Ambiguity and the Character of Yahweh Does Yahweh Abuse? Does Yahweh Contradict? Is Yahweh Unreliable? 11. Yahweh and Negativity Covenantal Sanctions Theodicy in the Old Testament 12. Maintaining the Tension Part III ISRAEL'S UNSOLICITED TESTIMONY 13. Israel's Unsolicited Testimony Possible Motives for Unsolicited Testimony Yahweh's Partners 14. Israel as Yahweh's Partner Yahweh's Originary Love for Israel Israel's Covenantal Obligation Israel Recalcitrant and Scattered Yahweh's Fresh Turn toward Israel Israel Regathered in Obedience Israel's Narrative Life in Four Texts Israel and, Belatedly, the Church 15. The Human Person as Yahweh's Partner Covenantal Notions of Personhood Human Persons Commensurate to Yahweh's Sovereignty and Mercy Characteristic Markings of Covenantal Humanness Covenantal Existence as Alternative Humanness Covenantal Humanness in Two Texts 16. The Nations as Yahweh's Partner The Large Horizon of Yahweh's Governance The Nations vis-à-vis Israel Yahweh and the Superpowers The Possibility of Legitimate Power in the World of Yahweh 17. Creation as Yahweh's Partner A World Blessed and Fruitful Creation in Jeopardy The World beyond Nullification Creation at Yahweh's Behest 18. The Drama of Partnership with Yahweh Recurring Pattern in the Partners Israel's Articulation of Yahweh Materials for a Metanarrative Part IV ISRAEL'S EMBODIED TESTIMONY 19. Mediating the Presence of Yahweh The Unmediated Presence of Yahweh Mediations of Yahweh's Presence 20. The Torah as Mediator Moses as Giver of Torah The Interpretive Dynamic of Torah The Dynamic Practice of Torah Interpretation in the Christian Tradition 21. The King as Mediator The Practical Requirements of Kingship Interpretive Problems with Monarchy "The Two Kings" Kingship and Torah Kingship and Exile Kingship and Hope 22. The Prophet as Mediator Odd Originary Speakers Authoritative Utterance The Canonizing Process Ethics and Eschatology 23. The Cult as Mediator Problematics Created by Stereotypes, Critical and Theological Zion: The Jerusalem Offer of Presence Mosaic Authorization of Presence Twin Jerusalem Trajectories Presence as Gift and Problem 24. The Sage as Mediator A Scholarly Consensus Contexts and Social Locations for Wisdom Available Distortions Mediation in the Ordinariness of Life Derivative Trajectories of Wisdom 25. Modes of Mediation and Life with Yahweh Yahweh's Gifts to Israel Real-Life Circumstances Human Enterprises Subject to Perversion Yahweh Made Available Embodied Communal Practice Mediation as Institutional Discourse Performative Speech Part V PROSPECTS FOR THEOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION 26. Interpretation in a Pluralistic Context Disestablishment: From Hegemonic Interpretation to Pluralism Old Testament Theology in Relation to Pluralism 27. The Constitutive Power of Israel's Testimony 28. Some Pervasive Issues Old Testament Theology in Relation to Historical Criticism Old Testament Theology in Relation to the New Testament and to Church Theology Old Testament Theology in Relation to Jewish Tradition and the Jewish Community Old Testament Theology and the Problem of Justice 29. Moving Toward True Speech Four Enduring Issues Form of Life for Community of Interpretation The Idiom of Israel's Faith Acknowledgment of Yahweh Requires Reordering of Everything Else Index of Scriptural References Index of Names